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Allan J. Miller (see picture) Is a former beat cop and member of the Tactical Squad. He's now ap­ parently on the vice squad's pay­ roll and is trying to make it in rj the community. Purpose? Dope ^ . busts. AJ# Urtl^mT^w^ em to mwii Miller lives at 301 W. Botts- m f ord.' The picture of him was A^,m^t^ C^W^rH^ HI ABOUT: men VML. taken in 1964. According to our t informants) Allan is working the MTC area and is trying to chum it up with people-from the East ,Side„ ( > He's 5' 10" and 170 pounds. ; He has black hair which he Is ' u JM— letting grow out.And while he +n* 4Mb WMLla *'*4 appears to be overdue for a shave, he does not yet have what would qualify as a beard. According to very good sour­ ces, Allan is dangerous. He should be avoided at all costs. If you Angela's Mother Aghast should run Into him, call ^'scope's Narc Patrol, 271-1250. "Even though I've lived In the ence at the UWM Center for Afro- ghter's freedom and stressed the "is very sensitive to the' needs Send a narc to the unemployment south all my life," Mrs. Sallye American Culture Mrs. Davis importance of gathering a mil­ of others," Sallye Davis said that office today. Davis, mother of imprisoned stressed her belief in her dau­ lion signatures on petitions thr­ each time she visits her In pri­ Marxist philosopher Angela Da-' ghter's innocence. " she oughout the country as well as son, Angela asks her, "please Hie Narc Patrol would like to vis said, "I just never realized would not have planned with a the need for defense contribu­ tell the people not to forget the that such atrocious, dehumaniz­ gun to shoot anybody. Angela is tions. other political prisoners." announce that Tom Levitt is NOT ing charges could be brought' an informer or a narc. Reports not violent " Her family and those Commenting that her daughter —Dave Novick have reached us that certain peo­ against a person who dared to who know her well are certain ple have been accusing him of speak out." that the charges against the for­ informing. This is not true. We A Birmingham, Alabama, sch­ mer UCLA professor are false, have checked it out. It is this oolteacher, Mrs. Sallye Davis was she said. McKinley Beachead kind of irresponsible rumor in Milwaukee March 2S and 26 '1 have faith that the people to speak and raise funds for her of this country will not let An­ mongering that allows REAL To some people It's a hopeless committee to be appointed by narcs to operate. People can get daughter's defense. At home she gela and other political prisoners County Executive Doyne, two by serves as the head of the Bir­ like Ruchell Magee, Bobby Sea- dream, to others a political strug­ killed because of someone's ir­ gle. But to most, it's a damn good Mayor Maier and for Chief Har­ responsible tongue. Make sure mingham Committee to Free An­ le, Ericka Huggins and countless old Breier or his man to serve as gela Davis. Forty years ago, she others. I don't believe the people idea, long overdue. of your facts or have them check­ To have a place where Creeks the fifth member. ed out. worked gathering signatures on of the world Drill stand to see A community meeting took up petitions to free the Scottsboro them persecuted. I'm optimistic can gather freely, do what they want, and listen to music. That's the matter of this proposal and boys who were framed In Ala­ to the point that I believe that, people decided that we should bama on charges of raping white somehow, she will be acquitted." what people are talking about, some skeptically, others hope­ support it, as long as it appeared women. Mrs. Davis called for contin­ that it might help. Also, a second Speaking at a press confer­ ued public support for her dau­ fully. For three years now Milwau­ Committee was set up through MADISON SPEECH: kee's freek community has been the People's Committee. They are looking for a place to gather, called the Milwaukee Coalition and especially a place where for an Alternate Site. They in­ could be played. And clude many local businesses, constantly, we've had to make do clergy and straight people who HUEY PUTS DOWN GUN with some park on the south or supported our futile efforts last west side. The few times we summer to get the Park Commis­ managed to get a permit for an sion to grant us a site, .y*^ Madison should be satisfied. East Side location — once and County Executive Doyne has al­ Huey P. Newton finally spoke th­ only once for Lake Park and ready made his two appointments. ere last Saturday, April 3. The once for Warren Avenue —it was They are Gerald Farley, head of momentous occasion was in a made clear that these were the East Side Businessmen's As­ bar/hall located on the outskirts favors, not to be often repeated. sociation and a sincere friend of of Madison*, far away from the v.,,We> did, rather by accident, Jhe community on this issue, and University .community that orig­ find;, a place to at least gather: Dennis Gall of KALEIDOSCOPE. inally paid" $2 a head late in Feb­ Water Tower,Park. Th'erhistory. Word has it that Maier will ruary only to be stood up, when of that park is filled with hassles make his appointments momen­ Huey wouldn't appear because from police, neighbors and pub­ tarily.- They will also be sym­ enough security wasn't provided lic officials that culminated in a pathetic people. for him. 10:00 p.m. curfew last summer. The purpose of this commit­ The 500 in attendance Saturday And that curfew resulted in tee, as best as anyone has yet got just what they came to hear; the closest thing to a riot the defined it, is not to decide if Party correct line. After being fr­ East Side has ever seen. It also we deserve an alternate site, but isked at the door (The Panthers resulted in a firm determination to act as a lobby with the Park could give lessons to Pigs.), and not to let the same thing happen Commission. By making their waiting another hour in the bar, this year. appointments to this committee, the people heard the Minister of A series of meetings, political both Maier and Doyne have en­ Defense and "Supreme Comman­ contacts and lots of shitwork dorsed the site concept, as has der of the Black Panther Party." over the last two months have the County Board of Supervisors* In his hour and 15 minute brought the community to the Now comes the Park Commis­ speech Huey stated that there is point where they at least appear sion. no split in the Party, and that to have a chance of finally get­ One thing that has been made Cleaver, 1 chapter and 1 NCCF ting the site for rock music. clear during the numerous meet­ chapter (National Committee to An 'alternative' to the Water ings is that final decisions on Combat Fascism) have defected. Tower. A site at which police * what site to choose will be made Huey also said that the Party and public officials would final­ by the community, as decisions "defected" the community by al­ ly grant us their legal sanction have been made all along. And ienating black people the following to gather and celebrate our life the purpose of the People's Com­ ways: style. mittee (not to be confused with 1. Thru the "Free Speech" (or On April 1st at the First Bap­ Biernat's Committee, though it "Filthy Speech") movement and tist Church, over 150 freeks., will include some of the same constantly using terms like mo­ showed up to decide which site people) is not to lead the com­ therfucker in Party literature they preferred. A group which munity, but to represent it. and speeches. 'grew out of weekly Thursday Turnouts at the regular com­ 2. The "bohemian influence" na­ night, meetings at the First Bap­ munity meetings every Thurs­ mely, "women wearing combat tist, the People's Committee for day have been, at times, less boots, smoking cigars and wear­ an .Alternate Site, had enlisted than spectacular. ing field jackets". the support of the UWM Urban What is needed is more peo­ 3. Over-emphasis of the gun in Affairs Department in finding ple. People who want to come to the Party paper. elevan public and private areas get involved and do some work. 4. Over-emphasis on alliances on the East Side which mightbe People who have a point to make with other revolutionary groups, - appropriate to our needs. and even people who come just to particularly white ones. Huey la­ At earlier community meet­ know what is going on. ter contradicted himself and said ings, the choices were narrowed In a sense, this is the first stronger ties must be built. 'down to two. One directly below real political effort this com­ In reference to the N.Y. Pan­ Water Tower Park on the West munity has made. Some see this ther 21 case (They've all been side of Lincoln Memorial Drive, as good. It does, sometimes, purged from the Party.), Huey and the other across from Mc­ bring people together. We can all said, "They are not Panthers Kinley Beach, just north of the agree, one would assume, that a and quit the . Party two weeks tennis courts and the Marina. place to haVe music is a before the arrest", (almost two After thorough discussion at the idea. years ago). He stated the Party April 1st meeting, a large map- Some see this as a traditional claimed them as Panthers to jority of those present voted for political effort. And it is, in part. "build support and legal aid". the McKinley site. - Calling people, getting signa­ He claimed that Eldridge Clea­ Also, during this time, the tures, lobbying, etc. ver wrote the controversial let­ In a surprise move, Huey de­ or other Yippees in Madison for County was reacting to the1 'prob­ And others look beyond this ter of support'to the Weather nounced as "adventuristic" ac­ last week-end's Yip New Nation lem" of what to do with all uS issue and see the hope for long people, that was signed by the tions like Jonathan Jackson's co­ Conference. Back in February freeks. Realizing that the County range political efforts — both re­ "21". Newton said that the "21" urthouse kidnapping last summer when Huey didn't appear as sch­ Park Commission, which controls formist and revolutionary. don't support Weather people, which resulted in Jackson's own eduled, false rumors had it that the parks with a rather firm hand, Whatever way you look at it, himself, or Qeaver and that they death, Angela Davis's arrest and besides the lack of security for was reluctant to give us a site, one thing is obvious. What comes are "cultural Nationalists". 4 other deaths. his life, he also wanted to avoid Supervisor Biernat introduced out of tiiis effort in the next two Huey became self-defensive Not so surprisingly he called a confrontation, over the Rea­ and got passed a resolution in months (for the community has when asked about the "Supreme the Weather people "revolution­ ver / Leary circus* with Rubin, the. County Board calling for a put a June 1 deadline on the site) Commander" title and claimed ary romanticists" and said they who was also- in Madison at joint city-county committee to will depend on what we put into it. to have argued in vain against may be "courageous, but the that time. be set up to negotiate with the And if we get that site, it will accepting it. The_-CentiaLpom- red-neck honky has courage too."_, RAJ[1 in all, you SfiUldn't h$X& Park f^wp^sip^^1apmaffr3ii^^ , be on^v the beginning. As well it mittee forced him-tt* ta^fijtshV A non-surprise?was thatrtuey expected moreS£ gotteifle*s|£$i priate site. Biernat's resolution should wL.1 said. was not disrupted by —Rick King calls fir two members of the —Dennis Gall

*~~—-Sr.«Ttf£.'i by Selina Bendix 'boob tube9 travlin' The series was written and con- > telephone tyranny The United States, if your nead's In the right place, can be ceived by Shepherd. Unless you're a pretty campy trip. The very, already Shepherd freak, his off­ The Bell System, in its contin­ fact that the real thing is pretty beat variety of satire should be uing war against anti-social be­ • close to Norman Rockwell's re­ checked out once or twice. havior (as defined by the ruling productions is amusing if you The series rambles from Ha­ class) has provided the federal don't let it sweep you under with waii to Mary Vnuk's tavern on government with a new weapon its silent majority conservatism. Milwaukee's south side where in its eavesdropping arsenal. Former east coast dwellers, the third shift workers slosh a lot Every touch-tone telephone man­ or Milwaukeeans energetic enough of beer around at 7 evey morning. ufactured has been designed to to filter most of WTMJ out of It's all done, for the first time, make wire-tapping easier and their AM radios, are acquainted with hand held color videotape .more convenient. with Jean Shepherd who gets cameras. Their high quality re­ The innovation introduced with turned on to America's square­ production, coupled with their the touch-tone system is not in ness sort of like a sincere W.C ability to go anywhere, combine the bugging apparatus itself. The Fields nightly on WOR in New with Shepherd's strange humor to equipment must still be placed in York City. |*gg produce something different in the receiver (the handle, in this Shepherd wrote and concerived television. If at all possible, it case). However once the bugging the 13 week "Jean Shepherd's should be seen on a color tube. equipment has been placed in the America", a sort of hip free "Jean Shepherd's America" phone, anyone else can tap it. form 'Travels with Charley" will be seen on Channel 10 Sun­ All you do is go to another which will premiere Sunday A- days at 7 pm with a repeat show­ touch-tone phone and dial the prij 11 at 7 pm on WMVS, Chan­ ing scheduled Tuesdays at 10pm. number of the phone that has the nel 10. —Dave Novick bug^ in it. Then before it starts ringing, press the button that has the asterisk. There are twelve WH buttons on a touch-tone phone; the phone company explains this THE FIFTH ESTATE by saying.that the extra two but­ WHAT ARE THE ODDS ON JUSTICE? tons are for uses which they will be putting into service at some Gambling in this state is il­ est not only me, but I thnk it is later time In reality, what the legal. Playing cards is not, unless serious enough to interest some­ button with the asterisk does is it's for money. one." Who that someone was, send a tone over the line that Acting under the law, Milwau­ besides us, he didn't say keeps the bugged phone from kee police arrested 10 men on The fact that black, poor, and ringing and turns it into an open gambling charges on March 21. uneducated people keep getting mike until someone picks it up. The men were in town for a the shaft in Seraphim's court This is a real advantage for bowling tournament and between while middle-class types not only simple witch-hunting on minor matches decided to have what is get off light, but receive judicial suspects as opposed to intensive known as a friendly card game. endorsement for their crimes snooping, on certified malcon­ For money. did not seem to interest Crockett. The Hearst Corporation, the- tents^. The intensive snooping de­ The men were brought before Some people, however, are in­ people who brought us She Span­ vices can be hooked- up at the County Judge Christ T. Seraphim terested in doing something, not ish-American War and the pre- Telephone Company headquart­ on city gambling charges. Seized only about Seraphim, but other Jburnal Company Sentinel, may ers and are much more effective. in the raid were two decks of : judges. The lawyers committee of have hired one of the MPD's The touch-tone bug has the ad­ cards and 269 dollars which was the American Civil Liberties U- Red Squad to write publicity for vantage that it can be used from in the pot. nion(ACLU) is compiling and in­ their Channel 12 promotion de­ any touch-tone phone once the bug Seraphim, noted usually for his vestigating complaints of mis con­ partment. ••$??& is installed. duct against local judges. If the "law and order justice", made The following is a verbatim» ' - WIND News Service an abrupt change. He declared complaint proves to have merit publicity blurb for a film called that he was dismissing charges it will be referred to the griev­ ."The Red Menace," shown April against the men (all white middle ance committee of the Bar Asso­ 3rd at midnight. ciation for, hopefully, some class) because if he had to con- s 'The Red Menace' reveals vict them, he'd have to convict action. the methods used by American "most of the citizens of Mil­ Jim Walron a member of the Communist party leaders to in­ waukee". Seraphim even had the group, told us about some of the ject their insidious ideology slow­ Vice Squad return the cards and • problems they are encountering. ly and venomously into the blood­ the money.. • Especially with Seraphim. stream of our nation. It follows What didn't get into the papers, 'Seraphim's clerk refuses to an honest, restless war veteran though it was reported on the give us transcripts except if we striving for success in the post- radio, was a remark that Sera­ are the lawyer who tried the case. war world. Step by step jt shows phim made about his own gambling We're not going to fight that now, him going through the process of habits. however, because we hope to get becoming a Communist." 'I've seen reporters gambling enough transcripts from lawyers at the Press Qub I've gambled who are friendly to the ACLU." for money plenty of times with It should be clear that Christ police officers." Seraphim has an interest in keep- In a sense, Seraphim justified 'ing the insults errors, and mis- one crime with another. His own. . conduct of his court out of print. At first, Theophilus C. Crock­ The transcripts would be all too ett an assistant city attorney, dangerous. said that he would appeal the case. If anyone has a complaint of Later-4ie changed his tune. "No, - misconduct against any judge they as a matter of fact," he said, can call ACLU at 272-4032. "I'm just a supervisor now. I let As for Seraphim's conduct, the fellow in court make the de­ what can we say? When justice cision. Dave Mogulka (assistant is so unevenly handed out it sh­ city attorney) has gone on record ould not be surprising that young suggesting that we not appeal and people "have little respect for the I'll back him up." system. As to Seraphim admitting that I'll bet Lucky Luciano would he gambled for money, Crockett tell the judge that "it was only was even less direct. "I find it. . a friendly game.'' interesting. But that should inter­ —Dennis Gall >/^V/^V4.'>/-^<<>/- DYEING . »V" .»- v» BLOCK PRINTING ON FABRIC Method 2 Designs cut from linoleum blocks can easily be made suitable for printing on Pick up a point of cloth, twist it (Fig. 2), and fabric using FARQUHAR DYES. tie a knot. Repeat where planned on the First of all the lino block should be given a solid wood backing; 3-4/inch plywood sample (Fig. 3). If the knot is tied in the is eminently suitable. Scraps of wood can easily be obtained from local sources middle of a rectangle of cloth, tie other knots such as carpenter shops, furniture factories, etc. They can be trimmed to size at each corner (Fig. 4). using school or school board equipment. Contact cement or white glue is a good For all methods: — tighten the knots ana aye bonding agent for the wood and lino. the first colour. Rinse and untie. Re-tie the Secondly, the printing surface of the block has to be flocked, since lino is not knots as before, then dye the second colour. sufficiently absorbent to hold sufficient quantities of dye to print well on the Rinse. Wash-in hot water. Dry. Untie by fabric. The flocking process is quite simple. It consists of covering the printing twisting the cloth on each side of the knots surface of the block with a strong adhesive which is, while still wet, sprinkled back into it as if turning a screw. The knot with a powdered rayon known as flock. The powder will adhere to the block and then becomes loose enough to untie. Wash, provide an absorbent, felt-like surface which will pick up good quantities of dye rinse and dry. and discharge it evenly onto the fabric. In order to produce the beat possible printing surface the flocking process should be repeated twice. Twenty-four Stripes hours after the first flocking the block should be brushed to remove all excess For all binding use strong cotton, linen powder. A second coat of adhesive can then be rolled on end the block turned thread, etc., gather up /Fig. 5), or pleat the face down on a layer of flock previously set on a sheet of paper. The block cloth lengthwise (Fig. 6). Tie on the thread should be left in this position for 24 hours before lifting and brushing and clean­ at one end (Fig. 5). At intervals make (a) ing all the lines of surplus flock. A further 24 hours should pass before the block narrow line bindings, (b) bands of solid bind­ is used for printing. ing, (c) criss-cross bindings or a mixture of all three types (Fig. 6). Fasten off. Dye. PRINTING BY UNO BLOCKS Before dyeing further colours add to or alter the bindings. If a slip knot is made A dye pad is required for printing. This is a piece of 3/4-inch plywood somewhat larger man the blocks to be printed. This is covered with a layer of vinyl which over each binding the thread can be taken across without being cut and used for is tacked around the edges of th* block. The vinyl is, in turn* covered with a the next binding (mis applies to all methods). layer of thick felt or blanket to receive the dye. (Raised edges may be put Squares around the block to prevent any slipping of the dye-impregnated blanket.) A dif­ Fold a square of fine cloth into four, then across to form a triangle. Bind all the ferent piece of felt should he used for each colour to be minted. corners and dye (Fig. 7). Try folding the square in other ways. Dyestuff is then brushed onto the surface of the felt until it is well impregnated. Marbling (a) The lino block is then placed on the felt, printing surface down, and impressed into it so that a good quantity of the dye is transferred to the flocked surface. Small sample. Bunch up the cloth in the hands. Tie on the thread. Bind in all When this has been done the block can be placed on the fabric and, while held directions making it into a solid ball (Fig. 8). with one hand, be given a few vertical knocks with a mallet with the other. This Large sample. Place the cloth flat on a table. Working from side to side, pick savage act will transfer the dyestuff to the fabric. Subs anient brushing:? of the up points of cloth at intervals and form them into a roll, tucking in the selvedges, felt should be made prior to the block being impressed into it before printing. (Fig. 9). Put a loose binding on while working. Most block prints will probably be simple repeats and so prooiems of difficult When all the cloth is bunched up, add more registration of each impression will be unlikely to crop up. binding to make a firm roll (Fig. 10) For both methods: — Dye first colour. Rinse Materials required end untie. Rearrange the cloth and re-tie Lino blocks mounted on 3/4-inch plywood before dyeing second colour White glue or contact cement Flocking powder and adhesive Chimp Tying (b) Mallet Small objects such as pebbles, corks, but­ Wood block, vinyl and felt for dye pad tons, rice, etc., can be tied In the cloth. 2-inch brush Mark their positions, with pencil dots. Put Rubber roller and glass inking slab (for block adhesive) an object under the cloth at the first dot and tie the thread round it (Fig. 11). Take the THE FASCINATING CRAFTS OF TIE & DYE thread along and bind the next one in place. and Batik have flourished for many centuries in different parts of the world. Make a slipknot over it (Fig. 11a). Bind each Tie-and-dye means exactly that. Fabric is tied, folded, bound, knotted, sewn, object in this way working from side to side or otherwise held, so that when the whole piece goes into the dye bath, colour or from the middle outwards. does hot penetrate the tied areas and the combination of dyed and undyed shapes forms interesting and colourful patterns. In Batik, areas of the fabric are coated Variations: — Cover the tied-in object wiu a with wax to resist the effect of the dye solution. t0M?- piece of polythene and bind (Fig. 12). Make a double binding (Fig. 13). Bind one stone above Each of these realst-dye methods gives an infinite-variety of designs, simple or the other (Fig. 14). Pleat the cloth covering complex, offering limitless scope to the adventurous. the object and bind over the top (Fig. 15). Dye. THE PROCESS OF TIE-DYEING Wash and iron cloth. Mark out the design in pencil. Tie up the sample, dye, rinse, wash, untie. Dyeing Method $£**^ 1 tin of dye = 10 gms., 1/3 oz. or 2 level teaspoons 4 tablespoons salt m approx. 112 gms. of 4 ozs. Circles (c) 1 tablespoon soda = approx. 42 gms. or 1-1/2 ozs. Pick up a point of cloth. Tie on the thread, The amounts stated make 2 pints strong dye liquor. The proportion of dye, salt near the point for a small circle (Fig. 16), and soda for smaller or larger amounts should be as above. and further away for a larger one (Fig. 17). Bind up to the point and back again using the Dissolve 1 tin dye in 1 pint warm water. Stir. Dissolve 4 tablespoons common type of binding required for the design (Fig. 18% salt and 1 tablespoon common soda in 1 pint hot water. Stir and cool. When the Fasten off. Dye. Add to or alter bindings before dyeing further colours. sample is ready and NOT BEFORE, mix the two solutions together. Wet the sample and dye for 1/2 hour to 1 hour. Stir for the first 10 minutes and then at QVal8 Aft* TManypndg (fl) intervals. For even greater penetration of dye or for bulky samples, enter them Fold the cloth along the centre of the shape. Draw half the oval or diamond DRY into the dyebath. against the fold (Fig. 19). Weave a safety pin in and out along the pencil line (Fig. 20). Close the pin (Fig. 21). Tie the thread on below the pin (Fig. 22). Remove When dyeing is finished, lift out the sample and rinse until the water clears. the pin. Bind the fan-like shape as required and fasten off (Fig. 23). Repeat for Cover the sample with boiling water (hot for silk and wool), add detergent and each shape. Dye. Add to or alter bindings before dyeing further colours. leave for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Rinse well and dry (A). Untie and rinse (B). When the sample has been untied a second hot wash is beneficial. fiATJK After the final rinse iron the sample while damp to remove the creases. When a second colour is to be dyed, and binding at point (A) to the areas where the first Wash and iron the cloth. Stretch it on a frame or place It on a newspaper and pin colour is to be reserved, or completely re-tie the sample at point (B), arrang­ firmly on a board (remove for dyeing). ing the parts that need more colour to the outside of the bundle Repeat the dyeing process for the second colour. To uuue the sample, cut the Heat 4 parts of paraffin or candle wax and 1 part beeswax until a blue film rises. thread at the fastening-off knot. Unwind the thread, tying the pieces together for Keep the bowl over gentle heat while working, 'or In a sa»«««oan of simmering further use. Jfjpp water. Once the soda is added, the dye is only effective for two to three hours. If the Waxing the Cloth dye must be mixed sometime before it is needed, put the dye solution and the salt and soda solution in two separate bottles, mixing equal quantities of each as a) Wax can be painted over pencil or chalk outlines with a fine brush or a tjantmg required. Tightly corked like this the dye can be used over several days. If only tool. part of a tin of dye is used, keep the remainder in an air-tight container. DYLON b) Wax can be applied to the cloth through a stencil cut In thin cardboard. COLD WATER DYE8 are ideal for cotton, linen, viscose, rayon and will also c) Wax can be brushed round a cardboard shape pinned to the sample. dye silk and wool. d) Imprints from corks, etc., dipped In the hot wax can be ftfunnplfd to form designs on the cloth. TTE-AND-DYE TECHNIQUES e) lines can be hatched Into waxed areas with a pointed object. f) Any area of wax, when cold, can be crackled by squeezing tt. Knotting g) Hot wax can be spotted or dribbled on to the cloth to form a texture. Tie a test knot to see how much cloth it takes Batiks should be kept flat while dyeing. Prepare dye as for tie-dyeing. Leave to — then mark position of knots. cool. Dye for 1/2 hour to 1 hour. Rinse thoroughly. Before dyeing a second colour apply wax over the area to be. reserved, then repast the dyeing process. MffthaU %-^-- An extra colour can be painted over small areas. Make several applications of a Fold the cloth in half lengthwise, twist it and concentrated dye drying In between each. tie a knot on the first mark. Repeat along the sample leaving a gap between the knots Put sample flat on a newspaper or in the sinkand gently scraps off the wax to

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As in A, sand­ Small wood screws for molding bolts, check to see if frame is wich the plastic liner between the Plastic liner-10 mil. absolutely level a.id all corners wood molding and the frame, then 76 54 % 78 f, £fa$n aiidrfifish #of j ypu? choice. • I* attach wiljh small wood screws. * for tt fe hblesf i«nj£ be\ sutes to [ Properly Ws\4$exfc^e liner will 1. Obtain the needed materials. ^space'-Jthem far enough apart so protect you from damage or in­ W»ere. is no danger of the wood convenience should your water Use 2"xl2" lumber for a Deluxe Splitting or cracking. Use large % 3ff % bed and 2"xl0" for the Stand(frdJ bed be accidentally punctured. mm bed. Lumber must be cut to tne washers under bolt heads. - Good Times —— The difference between Lt. ed anyone wantonly. He better William Calley and Charles Man- war . , , . rv. watch out; he may lose support. son is as great as the difference CX/. But to his relief, with a smile, between Abel and Cain, Christ //ii i A heller skelter he adds that no soldier has ever and AntiChrist, guilty and inno­ rv, killed wantonly either. America cent. Calley is Abel, Christ, and KILL wAr sighs with relief that he was only guilty. Mansonis Cain, AntiChrist • rsj, being ironic. But just as expected, and innocent. Calley breaks. He professes a There is a clear-cut distinc­ •• rv, desire to make anti-war spee­ tion between the two. They are KILL kill SS ches. Anti-war speeches! The ppposites, the most extreme op- American in him takes hold as posites, whose antithetical char­ he starts to worry about his own acters have produced what seems measly life. He has even lost to be similar acts. Calley has war the only virture left to a Chris­ killed many more, but in all fair­ tian: the ability to martyr one­ ness to Mans on, Calley had every­ self. thing going for him: a war, a uni­ Charles Manson, on the other form, command of many more an­ hand, shaves his head, promises droids, unlimited ammunition; in bloodshed on the street, orders other words the means and the his followers to commit suicide. alibis. Manson had much less to When he goes it will certainly work with but he acquitted himself thunder and storm and White admirably. His victims were C*— House curtains will be fright­ better chosen. The forked Sharon fully shorn in twain. Manson Tate will linger in American cried only for the Jurors. The minds long after the memory of Messiah, the AntiChrist, the in­ rhe blood soaked Vietnamese nocent Lamb is going resolutely Village is repressed. But both to the slaughter. There was never Manson and Calley accomplished doubt, there are no regrets. Per­ their purposes, fulfilled their haps his sadness comes from the destinies. fact that he could only do this But to hate (or to love) them much, that he could not do more. both the same would be wrong, So the Spectacle continues. Am­ the product of a sick mind. One >H0^:2O erica lives on. Everyone wants must take sides. Lt. Calley is to see Calley free and only the THE AMERICAN, the most amer- means are temporarily lacking. ican American, what America is Manson awaits death. The punish­ at heart, and what all Americans the hate that exists in all sensi­ stupid, should be receiving favor, ment, he knows, is fitting. It is are in their dreams, Charles tive human beings so hard to find even from an unworthy god. Cain the only one acceptable. Such an Manson is in the deepest essence in Christian Calley Country. He had not learned, could not learn, act deserves no less. Cain and anti-american, THE anti-ameri­ has always felt fated. He has no that pride is the unpardonable sin, Abel, Manson and Calley, two can, the venemous hate against doubts as to what America will an act of rebellion, a capital opposites, whose hate and love of our Calley-culture, our goodness, do to him. Manson is a threat, crime. He could not see that the America and its Christian cul­ our religion, our everything. He THE threat, and America feels basis of God's rule was that ture have produced a deceiving is pure negativity. Calley is one it. It might free Lt. Calley, but the Abel-mentality, the sick, the unity in act. But we must be of them. Manson is one of us. Manson must be punished. Calley childlike (one must not use one's psychologists. These acts are Their acts were aesthetic, not may serve time (sometimes, th­ reason), have inherited the earth, different. They are the reaction­ rational. To choose is a ques­ ough, martyrs are necessary; our that they rule, that all power is ary act per se, and the only tion of taste. cultural hero and Calley's, Jesus in their hands. Cain preferred possible revolutionary one. The Calley is what our civiliza­ Christ, also had to suffer for his Lucifer and revolution. He wished reaction always uses violence ag­ tion is coming to, perhaps what people), but Manson can never to live in a tradition of rebellion, ainst what it fears, what it can­ it already is, perhaps what is go free. His sin is too gatat. His not submission, of nobility, not not conquer any other way, what has always been. Calley is the innocence too pure. ^^ humility. His only possible act of it wants to dominate. Revolu­ all-American boy, finally freed Our analogy between Abel and revolt was to kill Abel, the sym­ tionary violence is liberation. from all restraint, and gleefully Cain is quite appropriate. Abel bol of God's harmonious society. Either for all, and if that is not even ordered to do what he has was the Lord's boy, always doing •• Charles Manson has the mark possible, then for oneself alone. always wanted to do. The Viet­ what was wanted of him, always of Cain on his forehead. He too The aftermath never leaves one namese represent everything al­ doing his duty to the Lord, sub­ has slashed out at Christian cul­ with fear, only pride and the ien, strange, anti-american, missive and humble. He preferred ture. He too has been driven to good conscience that one has done therefore evil and Calley felt the way of the loyal angels to the revenge. He is honest, an hon­ right. he was just carrying out his way of Lucifer. Cain was rebel­ esty of action that can only be Charles Manson is a Cain, an duty to destroy. His defense sh­ lious . He would give the best por­ admired. William Calley is the AntiChrist, regrettably an Amer­ ould have been historical. Calley tions to no one but himself. He "innocent" Abel, a Christian, a ican demanding to be something is America individualized, its has no gods before him. Cain was good German. Their responses more, something else. Demand­ history capsulized. offended, driven to hate, to re­ to their guilty verdicts are,in­ ing that he be a new man and if Charles Manson is the hate venge that Abel, the Christian structive. Lt. Calley declares, it is not possible he must kill, that William Calley has produced, prototype, humble, submissive, even to the distaste of the Am­ kill, kill till he himself is ended. insensitive, and perhaps a bit erican oublic, that he never kill- His acts are his own. He will, submit to no gods. William Cal­ ley is Abel, the Christian, the American who loves his country and wants to do'his duty. He is everything despicable and low, WATERBEDS WATERBEDS WA- hating all that is not like him, :IE(RBEDS. SUPER SLEEPING, everything un-american, pagan, Because we believe it, watching the SUPER FUCKING, SUPERTRIP- and noble. He kills in the name FTNG. $39.95' of his country, for his country. film is very much like taking part in 5 YEAR GUARANTEE WE PAY He is not responsible for his SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN U.S. acts. He has refuge in his orders, some encounter group- there's no SEND CASH-CHECK OR MONEY or his country, or his god. ORDER TO: America is justly indignant over way to escape the image on the PRINCE HAL the trial of Calley. He is a hero. 13631 VICTORY BLVD. A Saint. America's true Super­ screen, nor to deny its truth. ~::rr. VANNUYS, CALIF. 91401 star. Charles Manson has done what he could. His hate for Amer­ ica and its Christian culture could not be contained. He did only what was possible. He looked for freedom and could not find it.

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Now Showing TRAND Theatre 5i0 W. Wisconsin Av -Milwaukee, Wis The PAC couldn't have picked critiques. tion a mixed blessing. The Spring­ and Jim Messina went about put­ a better lead-off act for getting "Poco is California's great­ field was a "roots" group andas ting together a group that, Richie- into "pop"(what??) musicwith — est contribution since sun­ such achieved general recognition said, 'would be as good vocally B.B. King is eminently able to shine..." only since its demise. as they wereinstfumentally."On win over any audience (at any "Poco is the only group I know Richie Furay— "When we were the recommendation of Jerry Gar­ time) and yet provide a solid of that can sing and grin at the together we couldn't buy space or cia, Rusty Young (no relation to basis in powerfully well-executed same time..." time on a radio station. Now, when the other Mr. Young) was added sound. "I have a feeling that if there we (Poco) get together for an on pedal steel guitar, and Rusty Everyone knows by now that really ever was peace on earth, interview, that's the first thing brought in drummer George King is either the main man on this group would be the most Im­ that's brought up. We're more in­ Grantham from their old Denver- guitar or close on the heels portant rock and roll band in the terested in- what's happening based group. < of whoever might be. Most of the world..." now." Poco's debut performance at surprisingly younger and nipper The problem with Poco is find­ Will Buffalo Springfield ever the L.A. Troubadour in 1968 is (comparatively) audience knew it ing a new way to say wonderful. get back together? , one of those events in rock music Poco was conceived in the too, or were willing to be taught. "Ask George. That's his fa­ that to me(or taste) has trans­ Which is to say that King put ashes of Buffalo Springfield and vorite ques ion." formed from critique to legend. on a more straightforward and they still consider that associa­ After the final split, Richie As the story still goes, the audi­ less "constrained" performance ence's cheering, stomping, near­ than he might have. The audience ly hysterical standing ovation was more timid than unreceptive reduced Richie to tears of joy and whenever King would get it on while Jim trembled, stage right. he could count on taking a good "Pickin' Up the Pieces" (Epic) portion of the crowd right with i — This didn't exactly burst him.' ;onto the music scene. In fact, it So, if the vibes continue to be is still in the top ten of most decent, perhaps we can continue people's "underestimated al­ to listen to todays music at PAC? ? bums" list. Instead, it snuck up As another spot for bands to fre­ and jarred us with its Innocence. quent, it'll do well enough. Any While it is definitely the lesf er questions as to WHO to book I of the group's two studio al­ will be available for consultation bums, the material still brings upon. the loudest cries of recognition —Rich Mangelsdorff and joy from live audiences. The title cut is certainly one of the happiest songs ever writ­ ten; while "Consequently So Long" followed the bittersweet For weeks I've been trying to traditions of the purest "coun­ write a story about Poco. I've try" music. These two songs and already discarded at least a do­ most of the others from this al­ zen half-filled pages for being not bum have now been adapted to quite "right." I've run the ga­ medleys for concert perform­ mut from displaced objectivity ances, preceded by Richie's now to blind subjectivity in my be­ famous announcement, "we're lief that Poco is the greatest going to play a little country rock and roll band in the landi music for you now." and probably everywhere else. ti Shortly after the release of I read other interviews and re­ "Pieces," Timothy B. Schmidt views of their and con­ was added on bass. Surprisingly, certs and discovered they were the tone and range of Tim's more like press releases than CONT. PAGE 15

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JOHN C. MAHONEY . chronicle capture an infectious and And if the joy of Mad Dogs is tile mad dogs and Englishmen have to Mad Dogs and Englishmen, an A&M singular spontaneity, Russell was and entire ensemble involvement in a communicate has nothing to do with Film production, in association with is its catalyst By any measure, he has moment which transcends the £yisk* its few moments of political cant or Creative Film Associates, is the extraordinary film presence which alone, encompassing the varied self-conscious opinionizing. It happens \ second" film document of its genre to has little to do with the costuming, audiences on film and in the movie on stage people to people a tribal focus on a single performer or perfor­ the flowered pants, the Holy Trinity house, it is simultaneously a record of convocation of feeling. ming group. The form has become for­ pullover, the mane, the succession of that instinctive showmanship which Suitably, cameras follow the troupe mula and Mad Doge scarcely im­ toppers. generates from Cocker when he comes on promotional spins of radio proves upon it Except as a record of a And, at course Mad Dogs has the alive in performance supported and stations, observing the hype the per­ phenomenal moment in time, an ex­ music, the Gold Record score, the best elevated by the ensemble traordinary traveling commune on of Cocker, Russell and friends. Direc­ sonnel, the absurdity, without com­ tour, its cinematic means are tor Pierre Adidge presents it in the ment concentrating on the ritual and derivative and routinized. But it com­ now familiar, multiple frame collages the unspoken reactions of the group to pels. dictated since . But he and that ritual, the awkward greetings, Too. the film ostensibly stars Joe associate producer-editor Sidney the obligatory picture poses, the Cocker. Whatever his power of per­ Levin seldom create productive in­ foolish questions which ask for glib sonality in performance, he emerges terrelationship or tension between summaries of what has already been as an off-stage nonpersonalHy, unin­ those images. It simply looks as if they committed to disk in the musk itself, telligible surly, uninvolved There is have arbitrarily lumped together the.tendency of all they encounter to only one extended scene involving him available and not very interesting tell more than they ever ask. in conversation, probing his outlook camera coverage Nor is the relation­ or philosophy, and it is deadly. Yet ship of the juxtaposed frames It's over, of course that moment in » the film fascinates, communicates, organically related to the musk or the time, that peak, that delirious com­ reveals, excites. moments/ until nearly halfway munion, a human recipe in which the Cocker fades in the foreground, and through the film. The use of colored pinches and measures could never the background moves . into vivid filters is no more apt titan local for­ There is ample humor and un­ again be recreated. They've moved on, relief: the tour itself, the character of mula lip synch TV shows. And it scheduled satire in the aging groupies speeding toward separate destinies, up cities and the cities' characters, the 42 doesn't much metier. and press members who descend,upcn or down It survives on film and in i musicians, singers, pets, children and The style is not imposed upon the the troupe enroute, Miss International four track stereo, the journey from drop-ins, but most of all, dominating film; it emanates from the event and Butter Queen, a hotel lobby drunk, a 's Fillmore . East to the the frame, the personnel and the tour infuses the participants. Unlike Wood­ bored hotel desk clerk, an implacable Santa Monica Civic with scarcely a word and a generally stock, in which performances were of­ chef presented with an everchanging enigmatic and immobile face is com­ ten enhanced by presentation, perfor­ last-minute menu for the late-arriving As a postscript, Russell himself poser-singer-pianist-arranger-con­ mance in Mad Dog transcends the troupe. sings the end title credits, a verse ductor-producer and parth whip, routine of its documentation. It's hap­ It is that hotel lobby drunk, an ar­ originally penned to record his im­ Leon Russell, whose name has justly pening on stage and in the gyms and dent Richard Daley fan, who blab­ pressions of the tour, set to music and been appended to the tide for the stadiums and clubs along the tour, bers, "The biggest mistake you ever serving as a requiem to what had MGM release. whether it's full frame or triptych or a made in your life is to let the press let pmaed It gives the film its perspective < To whatever degree last year's Mad fly's eye fragmentation of the moment you talk." It doesn't matter what he after the spectacle tile circus left; Dogs tour and the resulting film the moment itself is irresistible meant He is probably right What the town. 'Gimme Shelter' sinister propaganda LLOYD STEELE pool cues, and one man lay dead of a baptism as fact; so stunned were we by do not already know. About the Once upon a time, there was a hasty knife wound. the tragedy at Altamont, that we Stones, it reveals only that they are ..concert in the misty mid-regions of The media lost no time in assuring grieved along with their eulogies. But getting a little older and a little more California. Perhaps you heard about us gleefully that the rock culture was an even more serious problem is that tired. About film, it reveals only that it That's where we died. (Time dead. Of course, only a few months the makers of the films about both the Maysles brothers were not up to magazine, December 9, 1969) You before, these same oracles of wisdom, these events believed them as well. the task they set for themselves. remember. to an­ in their search for instant history, had Everyone knows by now that a Actually: the two films, -both swer charges that the prices on their assured us that Woodstock had been madly successful film was made about catering to, and exploiting, the media's American tour were too exorbitant, the glorious birth of that nation, con-' Woodstock. But, judging from the size misconception of those events, are decided to throw a free concert ceived in rock, and dedicated to the of the audience at the Bruin Theatre, quite similar. The makers of Wood­ somewhere on the West Coast. After proposition that all freaks are created few know (or^more probably, would stock neatly excised any footage from an inordinate number of delays, a man stoned. The truth, of course, is that like to be reminded) that a film has the seventy hours they shot that might came forward to offer his speedway at any "nation," so short-lived, was no been made about Altamont. It is just have spoiled or tarnished what I then Altamont, near San Francisco. Mick. nation at all; that both events were as well. The film that has been made called "their once and future dream." Jagger, sure that no trouble would merely growing pains in a process that Gimme Shelter, will appeal to no one The Maysles brothers, on the other happen, offered all the beer they could will probably take longer than any of but inveterate fans of the Rolling hand, have thrown out any footage drink to the Hell's Angels in exchange us will live. Stones and/or . About the that didn't relate to their vision of for their services as bodyguards and The problem is that we* believed events at Altamont, it reveals nothing Altamont as apocalypse. They have stage monitors. A few too many beers them. 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The American Indian Informa­ their statement they say that if police. The guilt or innocence of "Nicky" comes a knockin'. Federal Judge John Reynolds. tion and. Action Group recently the Vice Presidential candidate the boys (burglary?) is beside the The jury has requested that announced the opening of a Nei­ is a woman then the Presidential point. Is it any wonder that the ELKORN JURY GRANDIOSE a "substantial" reward be offer­ ghborhood Health Clinic at 964 candidate should be a man and vice blacks and chlcanos of the com­ The Walworth County Grand ed to find out who was respon­ N. 27 Street. The clinic will versa. According to the SLF, munity have so much fear and so sible for the Old Main fire. Some­ rpovlde free medical services "Such political representation for little trust of the police?" Jury which was investigating the fire at the Old Main Building at how, even if "one doesn't agree on Tuesday nights from 7 pm to the majority sex(women) is long McManus said that if the city with violent tactics, this re­ ' 10 pm, and on Saturday afternoons overdue." did not honor the claim that a Whitewater State University has been discharged without return­ ward" system smacks of people from 2 pm to 5 pm. The group It's a good idea but what is suit wold be filed. He pointed getting rich off of copping out is also looking for volunteers to frightening is the possibility of out, "When they(the police) shoot ing any indictments. j You may recall that this was on their friends. Kind of like the staff the clinic. You can call the Martha Mitchell replacing Spiro someone it's always the same old bounty hunter routine. Indian action group at 933-:8550. Agnew. the same "grand" jury which story. He had a shiny object in sentenced Madison Kaleidoscope Someone ought to make a tel­ his hand and we thought it was editor Mark Knops to 6 months evision series about a kid who POLITICAL PARTY SEX ACLy SUING CITY a gun." Reminds one of Randy in jail for contempt. Mark ser­ works his way through college Anderson and the "shiny object" The California Sexual Freedom The American Civil Liberties ved almost 5 months of that sen­ he had when he was gunned down tence before he was freed by CONT. PAGE 18 League has called for all the pol­ Union recently announced that it in a police ambush last summer. itical parties to nominate "sex­ has filed a 500,000 dollar claim It was a cigarette lighter. ually balanced" tickets — one against the City of Milwaukee We will admit that a file is j man and one woman — in the 1972 on behalf of two 13-year-old presidential campaign. probably a lot better weapon than black youths who were shot and a cigarette lighter. Shotguns and The Sexual Freedom League wounded by the police on Janu­ which has branches in 3 states, 38's are a little more effective, ary 11. however. is primarily known as a "pur­ Police claim that they found veyor of promiscuousness". In the two boys and a third youth KNOCKIN' NICKY | standing outside the door of a home in the inner-city The po­ Vice Squad officer Nick Mon- lice opened fire on the boys with real recently had an arrest he J Women's shotguns after, the cops claimed, made upheld by the Wisconsin one of the boys pointed a 12 Supreme Court. Going to the inch file at them. house of a suspected heroin user Edward M. McManus, executive with an arrest warrant he used Benefit director of the Wisconsin ACLU rather clever means, to take his said: "It is incredible that un­ man unawares. armed 13-year-old boys should He knocked on the door. The STARRING: be shot down in cold blood like stispect asked who was there. this after being surrounded by "Nicky." replied officer Mon- MUMZER real, "open up, man." As the MURIEL HOGAN .door was opened, quick eyed Nick spotted some heroin packets on M'LOU BRUBAKER a table inside the apartment and MARTI MARTIN ;yg'« Enco made the arrest. Nicky usually works down on the NATALIE ZOE Major Station South Side. His reputation is not RALPH & MONICA always too good among his Chi- & Minor Repairs on) j cano brothers and sisters. Volkswagons & With the high court accepting this tactic as legal, be careful foreign cars when people knock on your door. April 10 It would be quite easy for a cop s30am-9pi to learn the name of a friend. He doesn't, according to the court, 66-953C have to tell you he's a cop You 8 pm can get one of those. 1W-* wide B4IO W. angle peep holes in yoi "~>or. UNIV. LUTHERAN CENTER It might be a good idea . ase (Across from UWM Union) Silver Spring 1 S*

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When we arrived we were gr­ the Camp McCoy 3 (American One Madison Yip won Do Yippies (or political free- eeted with the news that the mun­ Servicemen's Union organizers of the woman's works ks) get together in some town to icipality ad pressured the own­ accused of blowing up government wanted to discuss how throw bags of water out their ers of an aba doned YMCA into property) on how the National revolutionary freek won- hotel windows and visit local cancelling the rental lease for Guard is trained to deal with male-dominated hip cull 'hookers', .like the American 'their building. We also found out riots. what we ended up deal Legion or the swiners? that the City Fathers had issued After Steve's rap a woman in­ was the sexism at thecoi ' Well, one thi»g can be said, a permit for a street dance on formed- the group that George itself and how to respoi that when a whole mess of Yip­ Mifflin Street which was to be_ Demerle, lowlife NYC informer, As long as there is sexi pies descended on Madison last the coup de grace of the gathering, was seen heading for the confer­ we don't deal with it as week-end for a New Nation Ga­ only to have their ruling vetoed ence; although people didn't find and brothers', we're nevi thering that kind of shit was the by Mayor Dyke — it's like the el­ "Crazy George", they did find a be able to build a new last thing they'd do 'Cause they ection was coming up on April 5 known local informer who was That night we went were the kind ; of people who and fascist Dyke felt it would be promptly given the bum's rush. Women's Extravaganza a were not just into relating to the in his favor to incite a riot since day rap. We saw a play he could bring the forces of LAW Soon everyone split: some went various liberation struggles hap­ over to Mifflin St. (scene of the The Independent Femal pening in the '70's to the point AND ORDER into Madison to quell depicted a mass woman1 the disturbance which was bound forbiddne street dance) to check where they were willing to put out the scene. "It was cool ! with leading to the destructioi their asses on the line., these to explode, thereby impressing ism. Everyone cheere< his prune-faced constituency. many backyards and passageways far-out sisters and brothers were which would help us escape the when a woman brought oi into combating the American way People's Office and a bopth Robot Gestapo, Others went over piece and announced 1 of death with a new hip lifestyle in the student union became the to the Army Math Buildng to wasn't fucking around 24 hours a day. focal points of the meeting—it dig its recent redecoration (a convinced that in order Dope-smoking, longhaired ac­ was ar these places that we pick­ building bombed by student revo­ ism to be destroyed ca tivist FREEEKS came from cock­ ed up the constantly changing sch­ lutionaries 1st August). Most also had to go. A very roach pads all over the contin­ edules of workshops and rap ses­ agree* that the job they did was and right-on play. ent (mainly from the NE & MW) sions and were told where we ' stoned dynamite". After this 5 people anyway they could to decide what could find free housing and free bags came on stage and food. Eventually almost everyone dr­ their New Nation was gonna do ifted over to Stoned Manor—»a and wriggled. When one in the coming months. The con­ The first workshop of the gat - commune wh|ch\ had opened its came out of the bag—s ference ended up calling a spe­ hering was on Sef Defense. Orig­ doors to the New\t4ttion Confer­ ked — the others began cial New Nation action May 4 inally we were supposed to prac­ ence, including the jdoor to its and groan although th< for Dupont Circle in Washing­ tice streetfighting, karate and kitchen. Later thainight there was still covered. When the i a dance in the*"9tudent Union with got back in his bag music supplied by local rock felt better. bands. It was good to see Then we saw some ve sisters and brothers digging their ing films about Ameria people's music for free rather cide in Vietnam. The An than gettin bung-up,, put-on, and lived up to their reputa ripped off by big-hyped national fascist brutality and tota groups, who would probably play gard for human life. I, AMERIKA UBER ALLES if they ally, was affected most b were guaranteed enough bread, ica's cncerted effort to < groupies, and adulation. the Vietnamese people vi tion inducing chemical Everyone got a chance to get polluting the entire land;' a look at one another at the first ecology freeks dosometh mass meeting the next morning this instead of going aro (Friday) and decided to postpone lecting tin cans? In the the street dance til Sunday -be­ of a flick on Vietnamese cause of bad weather. That af­ a cop walked in and told us ternoon there were a wholemess was looking for a fire. ' of workshops. thing burning in the buil< A community organizing work* a reefer, so we were shop unfortunately spent a lot of finish the movies. time talking about planned ac­ tions, not enough about ongoing Saturday morning the programs, except the Oregon Co­ more workshops. Theunc uncil of Poor, a chicano, Indian, ound press had a friend! black and white group trying to ful meeting, with peopl liberate Adair Airforce base from ping schemes and expe the governor and H.L. Hunt In­ LNS received some criti dustries. Street sheets and co­ being anti-culture, anti- ops were also discussed. tion, and boring. In th Then there was the legal self lutionary Mysticism w< defense workshop put on by the mysticism was defined i Madison Defense League at whi­ escapist way —as a decc ch the advantages of having a ing agent similar to pu partial bail fund for all free com­ The alternative media ^ munity cases versus retaining made a video-tape; high lawyers to be on call whenever ers and gays rapped som anyone gets popped were dis­ Next we broke up into cussed. al workshops. basically The revolutionary dope dealing east and midwest. The n workshop went on 24 hours a ern region spent a lot of day in the streets and at late trading addresses and ^ night parties. Even the cops were plans. Kent State people aware of -this one and one was everyone to their march c quoted as saying, "There are a ington. to be followed b lot of revolutionary dopes in Mad­ tion May 4 in Kent to av ison this weekend." 4 victims of last year Another session concerned Hi­ city. People talked abc gh School organizing. People talk­ own communities, the ed about how to relate to dealers the Universal Life Chur of death drugs and discrimination they generally agreed against young people within the would be a good thing movement. The subject of LSD another, better publicizei and how it was cut with all kinds al conference on a farm of poisonous shit also came up igan in August, to plan and it was decided unless we When we got to the could be sure it was pure (which strategy meeting which i is pra tically impossible), acid the Eastern people pres< had to go. product of their meetinj Then there were workshops at posal for a New Natio which women, gays, and men "for sundown, May 4 — a talked together and separately historic scraggly little p about breaking out of the prede­ pont Circle. They calle fined death culture roles that New Nation to move on have kept us and are keeping us 'all other oppressed p apart still. 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proposal everyone was ready to Mifflin Str opened their doors, have mistook it for a black pan­ ing was its very success. There split. People hastily discussed ready to help. Sproadic street ther. the idea of a second annual July was a lot of anti-war conscious­ fighting went on for quite a Seventeen people were arrested ness and chanting all day. Now 4th Smoke-In in D.C. to disrupt and many were injured, including a "Calley Rally" subtitled Any­ while with some people even­ people see the need to move out, tually breaking up into groups cops. Some of the more ugly in­ not ot fight on our own turf. May 1 one Who Kills Children Can't Be cidents included death robots sm­ All Bad, planned by Nixon. Pack­ to go trashing—although the fuzz is fast approaching. had the scene pretty well cover­ ashing men in the balls with their Already the New Nation Confer­ ages of red joint papers sailed wooden extensions, or wbrking through the air and some one ed (most of the windows were ence has become a myth —- a ga­ boarded up anyway). I saw this out their childish, sadistic fant­ thering where Yippies and New yelled, "All in favor shout HI­ asies by wacking a woman in the GH" --^everyone did. The meeting group of 3 people try to trash a Nation freeks were able to talk drifted off. Goodyear Rubber Store (an im­ together and make decisions. Ma­ perialist symbol) when all of a breast whose only crime was that ny leople were disappointed that Saturday night people rapped sudden three of the.ugliest look­ she wanted to cross the street • about the stmosphere of the large was alienated from ing policemen I ever did see The most inspiri g figure of the. attending, but peopie^iound they meeting. People still seemed a jumped out of their shorts and .riot was a polio victim in a wheel little bit inhibited about expres­ could do stuff in a grass-rooted started chasing this heroic bunch chair who went right in front of way and still have a good time. sing themselves — perhaps still through a back alley. A few min­ the armored trucks, banging them smarting from the factional bull­ —YIP of Madison, utes later the cops returned car­ with a stick. as told to A*|jrWeberman shit of the last 2 years. Still, if rying a grey pussycat. They must The street dance even happen­ they didn't rap about Yippie and New Nation politics enough Sat­ urday. Sunday was New Nation politics in practice: the first street party/culture riot of the -year on Madison's Mifflin St. became the biggest and most suc­ cessful workshop of the confer- .ence sponsored by the entire Madison Youth Community. Who' else could get 200 cops to show up for the workshop? Sunday was a brisk and sunny day. The prolonged confrontation lasting all afternoon, with its taunting youth and riot-geared police, was a foretaste of May. Pigs stood in the gutter (where they belong), making sure that no one danced in the streets. People defied these fools by snakedan- cing and groovin and diggin the music playin on someone's box placed on a second floor porch." The motif of this music could best be termed Music to Fight Pigs By: a police loudspeaker ordering people to clear the st­ reets was met with David Peel's 'Oink Oink: { All day long cops tried to pro­ voke the crowd by ripping people off for weird things like "jay­ walking"; things were standoff­ ish until night when a barrage of rocks and bottles followed a final police attempt to clear the str­ eets. The cops split, only to re­ turn in-grey deathlike vans which they had used earlier in con­ junction with regular and unmark­ ed police cars to drive up and down Mifflin all day. With darkness, it got heavy. Some people moved into the str­ eets to do "their thing". Gar­ bage cans were rolled into the middle of Mifflin St. and trash- was set afire; the cops drove right through these hasty barri­ cades with their grey trucks making hideous noises, and sp­ arks. Then they opened up with pepper gas; it poured from the backs of the armored trucks like thick fog. They also fired pepper gas grenades, sending sisters and brothers running and gagging for breath. Luckily, people on 12

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HfllHIIilHlUUIIIiillll II \m\\\ mend it highly to your attention. sounds as if she's shouting to over­ Almond on flute |Q Linda Ronstadt belts out "The come her fear. These cuts are the only Mayall probably best sums up this Only Mama That'll Walk the Line" serious drawbacks to the entire review in his own words from the liner mum UWPI. and "Lovesick Blues," both of which package. notes: "During all these sessions I'm prove that Linda' is a much more ex­ Side Four opens with two songs sure I wasn't the only one who felt a citing live performer than her albums ("Blood of the Sun" and "Theme for sense of history being revisited, and, could ever indicate. an Imaginary Western") by Mountain though we all have our natural quota Merry Clayton was in rare form at which are exceptionally good except of rough edges and goofs here and Monterey, and her versions of "The for a strange sound balance in which there,. I think that the feeling of spon­ CONT. FROM PG. 7 im\ Times They Are A Changin' " and the organ predominates, losing the taneity and the pooling of creative voice is so close to Richie's time I saw them (when Jim was "Bridge Over Troubled Water" are full power of the group. ideas was well captured on this that their vocals can scarecely still in the group) I said they two of her best "Troubled Water" has one thirteen-minute cut called album." be called harmony in the tradi­ were "flawless." The second doesn't sound anywhere near as for­ "Woodstock Boogie" which is nothing tional sense of the word. Instead, time (their third gig with Paul) I ced as it did on her studio album; and short of incredible. It's thirteen FRIENDS (Original Soundtrack if you like Merry Clayton, you will Tim has added depth and richness was amazed to admit they were minutes of boogie with a little time featuring ). Produced by probably appreciate these two cuts. to the vocals, while the job of better and as far as I knew there out in the middle for a tour-de-force Gus Dudgeon Paramount PAS-6004. bass solo by, presumably, Larry sweet harmony is still taken up was nothing better than flawless. The inclusion of the Beach Boys' If you're looking for a new Elton Taylor (again, notes and credits by George. The third time I could see how brief version of "Wouldn't It Be Nice" John album, this isn't it The music would have' aided the listener). The they were mellowing and blend­ seems to be a token gesture to fill out was recorded over a year and a half "Poco" (Epic)—Everyone who package concludes with the entire ing with Paul's new confidence the program. It's a good, if not'en­ ago which, if I'm not mistaken, liked "Pickin* Up the Pieces" or audience singing "Let the Sunshine tirely together version of a song which precedes both of Elton's Uni releases. had seen the group live was and the fourth time (last month In" during the Sunday reainstorm. It . misses Brian Wilson very badly. The music is derivative (Paul Buck- pulling for their next album. Es­ at Carnegie Hall) I watched their ' comes more as a weak anticlimax af­ Country Joe McDonald does two of master's composition "Four Moods" is sentially they weren't disappoint­ second sold-out audience rock and ter the great weight of the music of­ ed because "Poco" is one of the roll with the same enthusaism his own songs, "Entertainment is My little more than warmed-over Dukas), Business" and "Air Algiers." As good fered on the album. finest albums of 1970. Its only I have felt all along. and the production is so sloppy as to as these two cuts are, they are shortcoming was, once again, be seemingly backwards. Aside from This group is tight, vocally, probably for fans only. - ^failing to capture in the studio and instrumentally, just like they that this is not a bad album — and it As far as I am concerned (as my ob­ the enthusiasm and joy of their wanted. There isrf t a moment on does really have some good,points. jectivity fails), Kris Kristofferson live performances. stage that they aren't absolutely Although the song "Friends" is well walked away with the show and the aware of what each person is do­ on its way to becoming a hit single for They came close, however, album with his "The Law Is For the ing while having just as good a Elton, his best songs here are with the high-powered and some­ Protection of the People" and "To times ear-spliting"El Tonto De time as the audience is having in unquestionably "Honey Roll" and Beat the Devil." And if I haven't "Can I Put You On," the latter of Nadie, Regressa" featuring the aisles below. already convinced you of the merit of Rusty's incredible steel guitar Richie and Tim trade smiles which many of you will probably this album, I will now attempt to lead remember from his radio concert The work. "You Better Think Twice," and lead vocals while dancing you blindly into the record stores to written by Jim, was released as around their microphones, then problem with these songs, especially purchase two cuts by Kristofferson. "Can I Put You On," is the produc­ a single and for four months scare you with their split second Consider it done played vertical ping-pong on the timing coming in together. George tion, which is very strange to say the charts. At one point it dropped is the sustaining strength of the least For some reason, the producer off completely for several weeks group and one of the most com­ has chosen to put Nigel Olsson's then appeared again in the low petent drummers around. No drums out front and relegate Elton's f$*s. Amazing. drum solos in the group, just piano, the source of much of the BACK TO THE ROOTS (John musical excitement to the barely For me, one of the most ex­ steady rhythm compliment and Mayall). Produced by John Mayall audible background. When you finally nearly imperceptual harmony. citing aspects in music is see­ Polydor 25-3002. (two discs) get down to the last bars of the song, ing that moment which marks a Rusty seems content to stay The hype line on the cover of this all you can hear is a drum and three transition in a performer(s) ca­ out of the spotlight, playing his album reads: "A very special double chicks harmonizing on "ooh-ooh-ooh- reer. Like the first time Dylan steel to one side of.the stage and album by John Mayall and some ooh." It leaves a bit to be desired. used electric backup. For Poco, dobro to the other. The spotlight memorable men." And, for a .change I believe that moment came at changes position, however when the music lives up to the promise of And then there is the song called the Shea Stadium Peace Festival the set is closed with Rusty on the hype The premise here was to "Seasons" which sounds almost exac­ last summer. A lot of groups his knees playing so close to the bring together as many of Mayall's tly like a reworking of "Country Com­ played there, some announced, edge of the instrument you ex­ old jsideman as possible Those in­ fort" — or, more probably, the other some not, but it was Poco who pect him to fall on the floor as cluded are , Sugarcane way around. It seems as if Elton was doing little more than experimenting grabbed the audience with their a climax. Paul, who has gone Harris, Mick Taylor, Harvey Mandel, (various artists). with this album. Some of the pure in­ wide-grinning music and Poco from city cowboy to country cow­ Larry Taylor, , Paul Produced by Eric Blackstead. strumental themes, particularly who everyone associates with the boy in the past four months, has Lagos, Johnny Almond, Jerry McGee, Cotillion SD-2-400. (two discs) "Variations on.Michelle's Song," are event. added yet another dimension to This, also, is not a soundtrack \ and Steve Thompson. Usually these kinds of "super sessions" fail to come quite nice to listen to; but that edge of Each concert afterwards built the group with his disciplined album. Gone are the "live action" excellence which we've come to up more and more momentum un- lead guitar work. Paul's songs segues which characterized the first together in some way or another; this one is definitely an exception. associate with Elton John is definitely • til their fall appearances in New don't sound like Poco's other ma­ Woodstock album. Two is simply an missing. York and Boston produced their terial, they enhance it. album of music, and a damn good one Perhaps the greatest surprise of the at that double package is the inclusion of a . However, it is important to keep in latest, and finest, album, "De- The group is in the process of mind that this is a soundtrack album, Side One is probably the best Jimi drummer on every cut Mayall has LIVErin'". recording their next album, to be and the composer's primary loyalty Hendrix ever recorded. The three cuts, been without percussion for the last To say this is probably the releasee^sometime this summer. must be to the film he is scoring "Jam Back at the House," "Izabella" few years, and he has generally made | finest live album ever produced It will be the first to include Paul rather than, his pop audience We and "Get My Heart Back Together," n work. After listening to this album, r is an exercize in understatement. and his songs. know that Elton is capable of much show Jimi at his full range and at his you wonder how he ever did without * This is probably the finest live Poco is a happy group of peo­ better work than this, and that best For a set that began at 6:30 A.M. the added rhythm man. Hartley and group this country has ever pro­ ple making happy music...infect­ knowledge should give us the on the last day of the festival, the Lagos are both fairly laid back in duced. ious music that sweeps over an necessary perspective to view this Unlike most live albums that band is remarkably together; and ... their interpretations, but the sound is audience like an epidemic of distinctly an integral part of the music album as only a passing curiosity. could better be called "Grest- Weil, there is really nothing more to hand-clapping, foot-stomping, say. Listen. and production. HOT TIP OF THE WEEK: Here's a est Hits" or "The_Best of", skin-tingling, joyful vibrations And then we come to the standard story I've been sitting on for three "DeOVErin"' contains seven that last for weeks. Side Two is half- ("Won't You Try/Saturday After­ question: Is the music good enough to weeks until somebody would confirm new songs including "Kind Wo­ A lot of people have said that noon" and "Eskimo Blue Bay") and justify a double-record package? The it and allow me to release it For the man" and "Child's Claim to 1971 will be Poco's "year." Fame," done originally by the half-Butterfield Blues Band answer in this case is: Almost It is past two weeks, John Phillips, Cass I believe it wll be their de­ ^'Everything's Gonna Be Alright"). obvious that Mayall wanted to put Elliot Denny Doherty and Michelle Springfield. "C'mon," "Hear that cade. Music" and "A Man Like Me" The Airplane cuts are good, and the out all of what he got recorded, and Hopper have been rehearsing together Will Buffalo Springfield ever the cuts are full and the sides are makes you want to stand up and band is tight; but my interest stops at John's house in the hills Althoueh get back together? long. The fact remains that there are boogie along in your livingroom. there The Butterfield song is simply none of the details have been finalized George doesn't think s a a handful of songs that never really Yes, it is that exciting. eight-and-a-half minutes of super as yet if my sources are correct this - Pat Baird blues. It's a great blues band playing got -off the ground. "Full Speed means that the foursome will be cut­ As soon as the production at its full potential. Ahead" just kind of lays there panting ting a new album for Dunhill chores on "DeLIVErin"' were Side Three opens with 's as Sugarcane tries (but fails) to find (although probably without the ser­ completed. Jim Messina left the €Bm$m ";" it's nice Then his groove And "Devil's Tricks" was vices of Lou Adler with whom Phillips i group and was replaced by Paul three cuts by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and everybody's mistake, because ab- is at odds over some forgotten Cotton. They feel they couldn't Young ("," "4"f»20" and ' solutely nothing exciting happened. festival) and going out on a two- have made a better choice. "Marrakesh Express") which prove The bad cuts are easily over­ month concert tour. Also mentioned Richief—"He's only been with that the quartet really needs a studio shadowed by the good, however. "Ac­ wasvthe possibility of a film of that us for a little while, but he's and some good production to make cidental Suicide" and "Blue Fox" are tour. There is a lot of excitement our brother. We've known him all their material work. The cuts here are up numbers during which the group being generated about this project our lives." good but sadly devoid of the full really starts to cook. "Suicide" has a and my only comment would be that I Poco in concert — The first sound which made them so great on particularly powerful lyric (generally hope Phillips and Adler can iron out the first CS&N album. The side con­ Mayall's weakest point) about the their differences and make the cluded with two disastrous attempts death of . In the softer, reunion complete Oh, the name of the at song by Melanie. During the first mood category there is a piece on group, for those of you with weak ("Beautiful People"), she sounds as if astral projection called "Dream With . memories, is the Mamas and the she's scared to death, and during the Me" which features some mellow Papas. second ("Birthday of the Sun") she work by Mall on guitar and Johnny CELEBRATION (various artists) Produced by Lou Adler. Ode SPX- 77008. Two more new festival albums, Celebration is a collection of recor­ dings from the 1970 Big Sur Folk Festival; it is not a soundtrack from the film of the same name The film was made at the 1969 festival and has no connection with any of the material on this record. So much for the straightening out some false ideas. CUP THIS COUPON SPECIAL A couple of general criticisms; and then into the material. The sound here is surprisingly good; it is easily as clear as the track from Woodstock, / FINAL but it does tend to be a bit thin in places. Secondly, some more detailed j|> • One stack of ,J| WEEK liner notes would certainly have been helpful in identifying some of the Tues - Thurs, 7:30 & 9:30 unheralded musicians — like David BUTTERMILK PANCAKES Fri & Sat, 8, 10, & 12pm T. Walker who does some fantastic guitar work on the Merry Clayton Sun, 7:30 & 9:30pm. cuts. with homemade whipped The set opens with Joan Baez doing Free Snacks and Drinks "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Let It Be," both of which prove that Joan has a fantastic gift for I butter and syrup JS£ 370 J. PELLMANN pop songs that are not necessarily folk music She ventured away from the I I'THEATRE folk {diom< only once before and tur­ r OHM M HOWS ned out an exceptional, if unnoticed, U40E. Brady 2844 N. Oakland album called simply Joan Her work •COUPON GOOD ONLY AT BRADY & FARWELL there was every hjt as beautiful as the [ BETWEEN APRIL 8 & 22 232-2622 962-6611 two cuts included here, and I com- yHfcflm WLaaW SBMmmm SaWtSm 4ftMM *l*a\\\\\S\\a\V $Ml» *a\*a%\\%> WM V TICKETS AT' II NMC DISCOUNT RECORDS 165* N FARWELL * 277 W MAW, WAUKESHA CHESSKINGI SOUTHRtDGE HAIL A HW. ALL SUBURPIA OUTLETS W HUMS continued from page 8 bleeding wounds of those few hours. a frankly commonplace attempt at Angels, has a built-in intensity and Their film is the "Let It Bleed" to cinema-verite. Much of it is so poor drive that no film maker could dilute. Woodstock's "Let It Be." Naturally, technically that the film stock must Against the awful knowledge of that both films are incomplete, and have come from airplane wings. The death, the timid peace signs, Gracie therefore slanted, and therefore most popular shot, long pans of the Slick's monotonous plea for .order, dishonest. Neither can claim to be a group in various stages of exhaustion, Jagger's cries for sanity (even as,.he true picture of either event. Where listening to playbacks of their music, is taunts the audience), and the music it­ they differ is that Gimme Shelter seems repeated so often it can only indicate self seem futile and even a little silly. to me the much more sinister of the an almost total lack of visual Yet that death, and, indeed, most of A lot of people thought my last taste buds—you could- do an two. It was obviously conceived as an imagination. Each of the Stones is the trouble at Altamont, is only ac­ column was ajoke. That's okay— - Indian thing with lernon juice, elaborate' promotion film for the allowed to mug for the camera, but at cidentally captured on film. I have no \$i&'bm$$M-;8£ $k f$$th 4p^ct$r' cinnamon and curry powder), it Stones. But, after the rage at no time is there a trace of the natural doubt that at the first signs of trouble, cal viewpoint, 4>v as a. poem, Altamont, ^hey chose to scrap the exuberance and spontaneity of the Mike Wadleigh would have sent his . w^re^r 'y^te, at, : > '^ - i,' Another time we tried it with other footage, and to concentrate ' films, another sacrifice to the Woodstock cameras into the middle of A couple of trips ago, I got milk as the cooking liquid,, which film around that killing. That, of Gothic mood of their film.. it. The Maysles pull back. All of it is hungry so I went to the Bam *N is okay but you have to keep the course, left them with precious little Most of the film, as you would ex­ shot from a safe distance with a Egger, which I figured would be heat low so the milk doesn't footage —• no more than an hour's pect, consists of footage of the Stones' telephoto lens. No hand-held camera. easier than cooking a meal* When curdle. You can use almost any worth, I would guess, each frame concerts, both at Altamont and No close-ups. This seems especially I got there, not only did 1 freak vegetable or combination of carefully chosen to adumbrate that before. But it is repetitious, and, by unforgiveable since, at the end of the out behind the plasticity and the .)^Bfe*ab|ok**?it*^av $^;$$^&> final tragedy. Entire sequences that now, predictable, borrowing heavily film, there is a list of twenty-two weird vibes bat when I got my have for dinner If you're depress probably would have been left on the from the style of Woodstock, but cameramen who helped photograph it. milkshake (which I usually dig a ; #i^> ^msti^ap^dt^ i-^stitotog "is&- < proverbial cutting room floor (the without its dynamics. There are -those Obviously, all were on the stage. If the lot) It exploded In my mouth down (sometimes too much starch boring legal maneuvers by Melvin who are going to insist that Jagger, event itself were not so dramatic the with the unnatural taste of cellu­ can do that to you, and the vita­ Belli, for instance) assumed a new im­ with his own inimitable and exciting result would have been inexcusably loid, chocolate mud and frothy min CI In vegetables helps), portance and became crucial to the brand of Parkinson's disease, is better static. air. I couldn't finish it» You could do this with leftovers new design of the film. Conversely, captured with a stationary camera. My The Maysles brothers have carved So when I got home me and my too—and you could even use can­ performances which occurred without only reply is that the film speaks for it­ somewhat of a name for themselves as girlfriend made LSD Stew, known ned or frozen vegetables for it, incident (Crosby, Stills, and Nash; self. There is no attempt to alter the makers of gritty documentaries about also as Garbage Stew. Fortun­ but fresh ones are SOmuch better, San tana) were deleted from the film. style of the visuals to a- specific song what Time likes to call "the American- especially the organic ones at the ately, we had picked up an order s To pad it to feature length, they (save in one instance: a lovely experience." What distinguishes their from the Food Conspiracy that ; <^$j& '%&#$£ tii^tajsrte^aB. or* merely got the Stones together again, sequence in slow motion which is as films, including Gimme Shelter, is the' day (now known as the Outpost ganic tomato, I flipped out. showed them the. film, and lyrical as slow motion always is). Only careful selectivity, call it propaganda, Natural Foods Co-op, 800 East - Someone said of my lam col­ photographed their carefully staged a few times, although Jagger perfor­ of detail: innocent visuals made Clarke), so we had lots of vege­ umn that It was inaccurate be­ reactions to it. med only his best known songs, did sinister in another context. (An tables. First we spend a long cause burning garbage pollutes Innocent enough, you say? Consider the audience bother to clap in rhythm illustration: try to imagine Woodstock time washing them and cutting the air. But if you throw paper in how films are made: Jagger, judging or to sing along with him. In fact, having ended with a murder in the them up, the hard ones like po- the garbage can, the city burns it from the embarrassment of his acting towards the end of the film, as the final shot and see what subtle changes ;, tatos and carrots, first. As the ' anyway, and just in terms of keep­ in Ned Kelly, would have needed tragedy approaches (forgive me, come over those lovely, joyous potatos and carrots and onions ing your house an ecological unit, several takes for, his reactions. And the Stones fans), the music has become so images.) What we don't need, and (you could use rutabagas, turnips, It's a good thing to do* Anyway, number of angles from which they are self-serving, it actually slows the film. what the Maysles brothers have given squash, or anything else you like) - M^,p^im,'SaMym ^tiilegsrv - shot precludes any spontaneity. I call us, is a film whose only function can were cooking in a big pot with bage for compost heaps, which Is that "sinister"; it is almost as if you The natural surge of events toward be to pander to establishment fears about an inch of water we'd a good idea if you're planning to can hear the Maysles brothers in the the killing is the only thing that about the rock culture and to re- saved from .cooking soybeans a have a garden (or even grow weed) background, jumping for joy that salvages the film. The entire last half, enforce their misconceptions about the few days earlier, we cut up .string In thesprifig. You should probably Altamont developed as it did so that after the Stones get to Altamont, with underground movement as a whole. beans, sliced zucchini and shelled start it i*ow, |ust put all your they could beef up their film. the deliriously stoned crowds swar­ As one counter-culture said to the peas* It all got steamed in just nice organic garbage (orange It needed beefing; much of the ming the stage in sympathy for the Other: with friends like these, who enough water to keep it from P®#V'$^*#N#lls< a|^teic0?es\\ footage of the tour before Altamont is devil, only to be beaten back by the needs enemies? burning (you can do it in a frying 'fmi^**^r^:p^stsr 'MW':h»i^ are - i$ar to&-«&$&f sattbsEtof $*e vegg-, good—also shit, if you can dig it) ies in a little oil'and then adding someplace where it won't drive a l$t$l» mtoxr- or y#getaMe/-stoc$y you crazy with the smell and the antil everything was tender hut not .•dogs; or n*sts m*t gei'l^.S^nie/ soggy, A little before it was dose people I know had one m their we added about a tablespoon of back porch In a cardboard box. salt and, some parsley and but­ Later in the spring I'll tell you ter (use your imagination and what to do with iu - Soybean Sally

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CONT. FROM PG. 13 CANDLES deep as your candle is long. You at the bottom to match each in something, not placed on some­ • can aLways ladle the hot wax over the top. So you end up with a thing, so the wax can run cor­ the wick. Let it cool, then repeat. contraption with detachable sides rectly. Let the wax cool after But this may seem to take for­ and bottom. each dipping. After- about 10 or ever. We used a big canning ket­ Next wrap the wick around the 15 dippings, or when the candles tle filled with water and set a outside of the wood, down the rack begin to take a shape, cut them large 5 gallon oil can inside fill­ to the other piece of wood, a- loose at the bottom and detach the ed with wax. You probably know round to the opposite side of the sides and bottom of the rack. The someone who buys oil in bulk, or block and back up the other side, candles will then hang free and a gas station with old cans. Then keep thisr up in one long motion you can continue dipping and cool­ you need to construct some sort until there are the ten or twelve ing until they are the desired of a rack to start the candles out loiig" strings of wick around the thickness. The candles must be on. Ours were made of scrap wood rack (see drawing). secured at first or they will not and coat hangers. Two blocks of You're ready to dip. The wax hang straight, but bend and be wood about 12 or 16 inches apart, should be hot enough that it stays uneven. Smooth candles need a (however deep your wax can is)., thoroughly melted, but not so hot stiff wick to start on. As they We connected these by drilling that it melts the layer you just get thicker they may start subtle holes and sticking pieces of coat put on; bendings, but you can gently bend hanger in the holes and bending it Dip the whole rack in the can of them back without much trouble. over. It has to be secure on one wax, hold it there for about 2 The candles when finished should end, and detachable on the other. seconds and take it out. Its nice be allowed to hang for a day or (This preparation will take a to make maybe five or more two to be sure they are very hard. Httle time, but the racks last' racks so you can make lots of When finished, they will be con­ and last.) Then the wood has lit­ candle? at a time. We set two, nected by twos by the top sick, tle notches in the sides, maybe wooden chairs opposite each and it is a good way to store 3 or 4 inches apart to string your other with two long boards be­ them, hanging by the wicks. wick from, maybe 10 or 12 not­ tween them to hang the racks on. —Barb Hazen, ches in each block of wood. One The racks should be hung from from Willamette Bridge

CONT. FROM PG. 12 BOOK useful "to * everybody everywhere , Bay Laurel will show you a better L So there. Reviewer secretly in who wants to enjoy and play with way, less .pretentious, more en­ love with author, also with read­ the good things in this life. The joyable. She's Only Human after er. What a story! "Li ing on the vegetables the cloth, the wea­ all, and must have some sad and Earth" is a pretty strong title. ther, the colors, the sounds: all sour moments in her life like the Think about it. the real material pleasures your. rest of us; but she's saved up in "The book of Tao says," Ali­ body can stand, none of the plas­ her cedar-chest only the best, cia tells us, "that everyday the. tic, all of the wealth of the uni­ most constructive and selfless, scholar must know more & more, verse, none of the money. All revelations about life to help us but the follower of Tao must know of the mystery, none of the bore­ all, including Alicia, get along. less & less. Eventually I must say dom. ___ Get ready. Hell is always th­ 'no' to this unceasing tide of in­ Such extravagance, can it be ere, city or country, if you want formation. This book is already true? Yes it can. At least, it's a to live in it. Heaven is nicer. too thick. But, if the tide bends view of reality. You can buy your Both of them are on the earth. me again this book will have a clothes on Fifth Avenue, eat in God. is on the earth, also the sequel. Besides it was fun draw­ restaurants, and register your devil. Maybe they are the same. ing all these pictures." checkbook balance in your cen­ If Alicia Bay Laurel chooses to Living on the Moon"? tral nervous system: but Alicia be a ray of God, so can you and —Raymond Mungo.

CONT. FROM PG. 9 NOOZ copping out on his friends, par­ of "indecent matter". Barbee's To give you an example of how^" |1.QP [OP ents, and lovers. It would have bill would permit individual pros­ antiquated our sex laws are, even what the TV people call "rel­ titutes to operate out of their some acts between married coup- - evance". homes but ban "houses"of pros­ les can bring from 2 to 5 years titution on the grounds that they in jail. They include such enjoy­ KRAZY DAVES YAPS YIP are controlled by organized cr­ able practices (depending on your Ronald E. Becker, better kno­ ime. preferences) as oral and anal wn as Krazy Dave, has asked to "One of the effects of erasing intercourse. About the only thing reply to an article about him in the so-called morality crimes," out sex laws don't do 4s tell "you a recent Kaleidoscope (no. 91). | Barbee said, "would be to reduce what position to use. The article, appearing in the police entrapment of prostitutes, Barbee feels that his bill will Youth International Party(YIP) male homosexuals, and cut down Street Sheet column, mentioned a on the harassment and blackmail "take the government out of the dialogue that Krazy Dave wished of homosexuals." |^| bedroom". Such legislation is to have with the police. His group The bill would also repeal the long overdue. Isn't it time that is called the "East Side Peace current abortion laws. Barbee legislators woke up to the Twen­ ] Delegation". The Street Sheet feels that "Abortions are a pri­ tieth Century and quit paying lip article urged people to stay away vate matter between a woman and service to a moral code that from those meetings and to be her physician and the state has no they break every day. careful of Dave because some business making them a crime" —Dennis Gall "folks claimed that Krazy Dave tried to build bridges of - swine understanding by fingering people" during a Warren ST. festival last spring. "I call it YAP," Dave said, referring to YIP. "They are guilty of political mudslinging, assumptions, and outright lies. (less than 8* per copyl) YIP is against freedom of speech. "We are only going to talk ab­ out affairs such as screening the YES, send me the next thirteen exciting issues of KALEIDOSCOPE. police for sadistic men," Dave Enclosed is one American dollar. Thank you. said of his Peace Delegation. "It won't be just police it will NAME be everyone. We are not going to be discussing personalities so no ADDRESS one will be in anyway criminally implicated." He also said that CITY STATE ZIP the War and marijuana would be discussed. We want understanding,'' HEY, the friend listed below deserves a subscription. Send him the Dave explained, "less tension, next thirteen issues too. Enclosed is another American dollar. fear, and ignorance. Less vio­ lence. Krazy Dave is passing the NAME peace pipe with the policemen." Dave's parting shot was, "Don't ADDRESS let YIP get a stranglehold on the community. All men are my CITY STATE ZIP brothers." Hmmm. BARBEE LEGALIZING SEX State Assemblyman from Mil­ NO, I don't much believe in 'special premium once-in-a-lifetime waukee, Lloyd Barbee, has in­ offers'. Besides, I don't want to be bothered with a renewal notice in* troduced a bill in the Assembly thirteen weeks. So send" me your regular, old reliable offer of: that would legalize all voluntary 2% issues ($5.00) 52 issues ($9.00) sexual activities between single persons and some sexual acts NAME now illegal between .married c. couples. ADDRESS The bill would remove the criminal penalties for adultery, CITY STATE ZIP fornication, cohabitation, inde­ cent exposure and the possession V^:f*l:tlt

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YIPPIE/ NEW NATION CONFERENCE HAPPENS: Madison springs Free! dirtyfighting outside on the lib­ on the struggle against sexism in Did you ever wonder what the ton, D.C. as part of May Day, the New Nation was one of the fuck goes down at a Yippie(Y- and witnessing Madison's first rary mall but we ended up inside digging a rap by Steve Geden of major themes of the gathering. outh International Party) conven­ culture riot of the year. One Madison Yip woman said tion? When we arrived we were gr­ the Camp McCoy 3 (American Servicemen's Union organizers of the woman's workshop: "I eeted with the news that the mun­ wanted to discuss how to be a Do Yippies (or political free- icipality ad pressured the own­ accused of blowing up government ks) get together in some town to property) on how the National revolutionary freek woman in a ers of an aba doned YMCA into male-dominated hip culture, but throw bags of water out their cancelling the rental lease for Guard is trained to deal with hotel windows and visit local riots. what we ended up dealing with their building. We also found out was the sexism at the conference 'hookers', .like the American that the City Fathers had issued After Steve's rap a woman in­ Legion or the swiners? itself and how to respond to it. a permit for a street dance on formed the group that George As long as there is sexism, and Well, one thi#g can be said, Mifflin Street which was to be Demerle, lowlife NYC informer, that when a whole mess of Yip­ we don't deal with it as sisters the coup de grace of the gathering, was seen heading for the confer­ and brothers, we're never gonna pies descended on Madison last only to have their ruling vetoed ence; although people didn't find week-end for a New Nation Ga­ be able to build a new nation." by Mayor Dyke — it's like the el­ "Crazy George", they did find a That night we went to the thering that kind of shit was the ection was coming up on April 5 known local informer who was last thing they'd do ' Cause they Women's Extravaganza and May­ and fascist Dyke felt it would be promptly given the bum's rush. day rap. We saw a play entitled were the kind of people who in his favor to incite a riot since Soon everyone split: some went were not just into relating to the The Independent Female, which he could bring the forces of LAW over to Mifflin St. (scene of the depicted a mass woman's strike various liberation struggles hap­ AND ORDER into Madison to quell forbiddne street dance) to check pening in the '70's to the point leading to the destruction of sex­ MADISON MIFFLIN ST., SUNDAY APRIL 4, LOTZA FREEKS AND LOTZA COPS the disturbance which was bound out the scene. 'It was cool with ism. Everyone cheered madly where they were willing to put to explode, thereby impressing many backyards and passageways their asses on the line., these when a woman brought out a fake his prune-faced constituency. which would help us escape the piece and announced that she far-out sisters and brothers were Robot Gestapo. Others went over into combating the American way People's Office and a booth wasn't fucking around and was in the student union became the to the Army Math Buildng to . convinced that in order for sex­ of death with a new hip lifestyle dig its recent redecoration (a proposal everyone was ready to Mifflin St. opened their doors, have mistook it for a black pan­ ing was its very success. There 24 hours a day. focal points of the meeting — it ism to be destroyed capitalism was at these places that we pick­ building bombed by student revo­ split. People hastily discussed ready to help. Sproadic street ther. was a lot of anti-war conscious­ Dope-smoking longhaired ac­ also had to go. A very funny the idea of a second annual July fighting went on for quite a Seventeen people were arrested ness and chanting all day. Now ed up the constantly changing sch­ lutionaries 1st August). Most and right-on play. tivist FREEEKS came from cock­ agree* that the job they did was 4th Smoke-In in D.C. to disrupt while with some people even­ and many were injured, including people see the need to move out, roach pads all over the contin­ edules of workshops and rap ses­ sions and were told where we ' stoned dynamite". After this 5 people in cloth a "Calley Rally" subtitled Any­ tually breaking up into groups cops. Some of the more ugly in­ not ot fight on our own turf. May 1 ent (mainly from the NE & MW) bags came on stage and writhed one Who Kills Children Can't Be to go trashing—although the fuzz cidents included death robots sm­ is fast approaching. anyway they could to decide what could find free housing and free Eventually almost everyone dr­ food. and wriggled. When one of them All Bad, planned by Nixon. Pack­ had the scene pretty well cover­ ashing men in the balls with their Already the New Nation Confer­ their New Nation was gonna do ifted over to Stoned Manor — a ages of red joint papers sailed wooden extensions, or wbrking ence has become a myth — a ga­ The first workshop of the gat came out of the bag — stark na­ ed (most of the windows were in the coming months. The con­ commune which\ had opened its ked—the others began to moan through the air and some one out their childish, sadistic fant­ thering where Yippies and New hering was on Sef Defense. Orig­ doors to the New Nation Confer­ boarded up anyway). I saw this ference ended up calling a spe­ and groan although they were yelled, "All in favor shout HI­ group of 3 people try to trash a asies by wacking a woman in the Nation freeks were able to talk cial New Nation action May 4 inally we were supposed to prac­ ence, including the door to its GH" — everyone did. The meeting together and make decisions. Ma­ tice streetfighting, karate and still covered. When the naked cat Goodyear Rubber Store (an im­ for Dupont Circle in Washing­ kitchen. Later that^iight there was got back in his bag they all drifted off. breast whose only crime was that ny leople were disappointed that a dance in the Student Union with perialist symbol) when all of a felt better. Saturday night people rapped sudden three of the ugliest look­ she wanted to cross the street • Abbie Hoffman was alienated from music supplied by local rock Then we saw some very mov­ about the stmosphere of the large The most inspiri g figure of the. attending, but people found they bands. It was good to see ing policemen I ever did see ing films about American geno­ meeting. People still seemed a jumped out of their shorts and „ riot was a polio victim in a wheel could do stuff in a grass-rooted sisters and brothers digging their cide in Vietnam. The Americans little bit inhibited about expres­ chair who went right in front of way and still have a good time. people's music for free rather started chasing this heroic bunch lived up to their reputation for sing themselves — perhaps still through a back alley. A few min­ the armored trucks, banging them —YIP of Madison, than gettin hung-up,, put-on, and fascist brutality and total disre­ smarting from the factional bull­ with a stick. as told to A.J. Weberman ripped off by big-hyped national utes later the cops returned car­ gard for human life. I, person­ shit of the last 2 years. Still, if rying a grey pussycat. They must The street dance even happen­ groups, who would probably play ally, was affected most by Amer­ they didn't rap about Yippie and AMERIKA UBER ALLES if they ica's encerted effort to destroy New Nation politics enough Sat­ were guaranteed enough bread, the Vietnamese people via muta­ urday. Sunday was New Nation groupies, and adulation. tion inducing chemical agents, politics in practice: the first Everyone got a chance to get polluting the entire land; why don't street party/culture riot of the a look at one another at the first -ecology freeks do something about year on Madison's Mifflin St. mass meeting the next morning this instead of going around col­ became the biggest and most suc­ (Friday) and decided to postpone lecting tin cans? In the middle cessful workshop of the confer­ the street dance til Sunday be­ of a flick on Vietnamese culture ence sponsored by the entire cause of bad weather. That af­ a cop walked in and told us he Madison Youth Community. Who ternoon there were a whole mess was looking for a fire. The only else could get 200 cops to show of workshops. thing burning in the building was up for the workshop? A community organizing work­ a reefer, so we were able to Sunday was a brisk and sunny shop unfortunately spent a lot of finish the movies. day. The prolonged confrontation time talking about planned ac­ Saturday morning there were lasting all afternoon, with its tions, not enough about ongoing more workshops. The undergr­ taunting youth and riot-geared programs, except the Oregon Co­ ound press had a friendly, help- • police, was a foretaste of May. uncil of Poor, a chicano, Indian, ful meeting, with people swap­ Pigs stood in the gutter (where black and white group trying to ping schemes and experiences. they belong), making sure that no liberate Adair Airf orce base from LNS received some criticism for one danced in the streets. People the governor and H.L. Hunt In­ being anti-culture, anti-new na­ defied these fools by snakedan- dustries. Street sheets and co­ tion, and boring. In the Revo­ cing and groovin and diggin the ops were also discussed. lutionary Mysticism workshop, music playin on someone's box Then there was the legal self mysticism was defined in a non- placed on a second floor porch. defense workshop put on by the escapist way — as a decond tion- The motif, of this music could Madison Defense League at whi­ ing agent similar to pure LSD. best be termed Music to Fight ch the advantages of having a The alternative media workshop Pigs By: a police loudspeaker partial bail fund for all free com­ made a video-tape; high school­ ordering people to clear the st­ munity cases versus retaining ers and gays rapped some more reets was met with David Peel's lawyers to be on call whenever Next we broke up into region­ 'Oink Oink: anyone gets popped were dis­ al workshops, basically of the All day long cops tried to pro­ cussed. east and midwest. The midwest- The revolutionary dope dealing voke the crowd by ripping people ern region spent a lot of its time off for weird things like "jay­ workshop went on 24 hours a trading addresses and May Day day in the streets and at late walking"; things were standoff­ plans. Kent State people invited ish until night when a barrage of night parties. Even the cops were everyone to their march on Wash­ aware of this one and one was rocks and bottles followed a final ington to be followed by an ac­ police attempt to clear the str­ quoted as saying, "There are a tion May 4 in Kent to avenge the lot of revolutionary dopes in Mad­ eets. The cops split, only to re­ 4 victims of last year's atro­ turn in grey deathlike vans which ison this weekend." city. People talked about their Another session concerned Hi­ own communities, the I.W.W., they had used earlier in con­ gh School organizing. People talk­ the Universal Life Church. And junction with regular and unmark­ ed about how to relate to dealers they generally agreed that it ed police cars to drive up and of death drugs and discrimination would be a good thing to have down Mifflin all day. against young people within the another, better publicized nation­ With darkness, it got heavy. movement. The subject of LSD al conference on a farm in Mich­ Some people moved into the str­ and how it was cut with all kinds igan in August, to plan for fall. eets to do "their thing". Gar­ of poisonous shit also came up When we got to the national bage cans were rolled into the and it was decided unless we strategy meeting which followed, middle of Mifflin St. and trash could be sure it was pure (which the Eastern people presented the was set afire; the cops drove is pra tically impossible), acid product of their meeting: a pro­ right through these hasty barri­ had to go. posal for a New Nation Action cades with their grey trucks Then there were workshops at for sundown, May 4 —at D.C.'s making hideous noises, and sp­ which women, gays, and men historic scraggly little park, Du­ arks. Then they opened up with talked together and separately pont Circle. They called for the pepper gas; it poured from the about breaking out of the prede­ New Nation to move on up with backs of the armored trucks like fined death culture roles that all other oppressed people to thick fog. They also fired pepper have kept us and are keeping us higher levels of struggle than gas grenades, sending sisters apart still. We found we're just passive resistance. and brothers running and gagging beginning to understand our own for breath. Luckily, people on sexual repression. The emphasis By the time we agreed on this

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